The ''Peace Process'' That Never Was
The ''Peace Process'' That Never Was
by Raymond Kraft, Chron Watch
A week ago, Yasser Arafat died, the putative godfather of the Palestinian State, after decades of failing to actually create one.
Journalists and pundits and politicians everywhere announced the hope that a new Palestinian Authority leader would hold out new hope for a renewal of the Peace Process. Or the alleged peace process.
There have been decades now of grandstanding, politicalizing, and wishful thinking built up around the chimerical Palestinian Peace Process, all of it predicated, in the West at least, on the assumption that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority might, someday, actually want peace with Israel. Or that if we could just find the right combination of deals and terms and concessions, we could talk them into it, without actually having to give them what they really want--no Israel.
MORE The article goes on to quote from the Palestinian National Charter,
Article 21
The Arab Palestinian people, expressing themselves by the armed Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions which are substitutes for the total liberation of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem, or its internationalization.
Need I say more?
Posted by Ted Belman at November 23, 2004 04:20 PM
The ''Peace Process'' That Never Was
by Raymond Kraft, Chron Watch
Posted by Ted Belman at November 23, 2004 04:20 PM